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This Week in Geekdom

Happy weekend and Happy Mother's
Day to all the moms out there! Good googly Cthulu it feels amazing to get back
to some semblance of normalcy. The rest of this month should be chock-full of
blogging goodness under several different categories.Very, very excited about all this, but first,
the week in geekdom!

Happy Mother's Day to all our real-life superheros

Comics

DC is desperate for your
attention. And by you, they mean anyone with disposable income who is old
enough to have even vague memories of Masters of the Universe. The attempts at
nostalgia are rife in their latest miniseries, which pits He-Man and his ilk
against Superman and the rest of the Justice League. Those grumbles you hear
are from disappointed She-Ra fans upon learning that their favorite Princess of
Power gets no love in these new comics. The crossover series will hit the
shelves this coming August.

Science/Technology

In a thrilling development for lovers
of zero emissions/electric vehicles, Consumer Reports released their review of
the new Model S sedan by Tesla. The verdict: a near-perfect score of 99/100.
See video of the test drive and the full recap here.

Love the affordability of IKEA
furniture but hate assembling it? Your fellow nerds over at MIT have you
covered. This week, a team of engineers debuted their work on an autonomous robot that can put together several offerings from the Swedish home goods
giant.

Time, Google, and NASA
collaborated on this simultaneously beautiful and unnerving time-lapse series
of the Earth and the changes thereto that have taken place in the past 30
years.

Approximately 2 million people a
year die because they did not have access to sufficiently clean drinking water.
In order to address this widespread and entirely preventable problem,
researchers at the Institute of Technology in Madras, India presented theirwork on a potential solution. Bonus: their device would cost under $3 USD per
year to operate.

Ever found yourself vehemently
disagreeing with a critic's assessment of a comic book movie? Turns out you're
far from alone. Check out this very detailed, semi-studious ranking of 140
recent films that had roots in comics.

It's been over 35 years since
they were used, but apparently the original Tatooine sets from Episode IV are
not only still standing, but have been entirely abandoned. Photographer Ra di
Martino learned of this and set out for Tunisia to see for himself. These are the images she captured of that expedition.

Games

Fans of Diablo III may have been
privy to a digital gold rush this week as a bug in the game metastasized to the
point that Blizzard was forced to shut down the game's controversial auction
houses. The glitch has since been fixed and the game restored to full
functionality.

Oh PopCap, when are your wares
not wholly addictive? The answer is never. Soon we'll have even more cause to
wonder where the last 2 hours went as the company announced that they will be
releasing Plants vs. Zombies 2 in July.

Speaking of things that may
manifest as click games on social media, remember how last year around this
time Zynga tried to keep Facebook's sticky fingers out of their FarmVille
cookie jar? Yeah, about that.